⚡ Legacy Technologies in Egypt

Legacy technologies are platforms and tools that have been discontinued or shut down and no longer operate. Some are completely defunct, while others remain functional but unsupported.

Egypt is a North African country with a population of over 112 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 29.4% of websites from Egypt.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top legacy technologies in Egypt in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 34.5%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 21.2% and jQuery Cookie with 9.3%.

Magnific Popup 34.5%
Google URL Shortener 21.2%
jQuery Cookie 9.3%
jQuery Mousewheel 7.4%
iLightBox 7.3%
Messenger Customer Chat 6%
AddThis 5%
Adobe Flash 4.3%
Skrollr 4.1%
AngularJS 2.3%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.7%
Alexa 1.7%
Google Sign-In 1.5%
ASP 1.5%
Facebook Like Box 1.4%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in Egypt than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
5. iLightBox ^(-4)
6. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-8)
9. Skrollr ^(-2)
10. AngularJS ^(-7)
11. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-2)
12. Alexa ^(-11)
13. Google Sign-In ^(-22)
15. Facebook Like Box ^(-5)
16. Google Funding Choices ^(-3)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 45 legacy technologies used on sites from Egypt, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	34.5%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	21.2%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.3%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.4%
5	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	7.3%
6	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	6%
7	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	5%
8	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	4.3%
9	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.1%
10	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.3%
11	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
12	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.7%
13	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity Services for Web. FreeLegacy	1.5%
14	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.5%
15	Facebook Like Box Menlo Park, California, United States A plugin that allowed admins to promote their Facebook Pages and embed a simple feed of content from a Page into other sites. Legacy	1.4%
16	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.4%
17	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
18	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
19	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
20	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
21	Google Optimize Mountain View, California, United States A free website optimization tool integrated with Google Ads that enabled A/B, multivariate, and redirect landing page testing. Legacy	0.8%
22	Google Webmaster Tools Mountain View, California, United States The old Google Webmaster Tools, detected by the meta name "verify-v1", which have been deprecated in favor of Google Search Console. FreeLegacy	0.8%
23	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
24	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
25	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 2,662 websites from Egypt.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.